Pantodude Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 (edited) Has anyone EVER seen one, like stamped "GILBOY JUN 5", on a Golden or Silver Age book? Gilboy was (is?) a San Francisco distributor that distributed the Reilly or San Francisco pedigree books, but back then it only used a cursive "g", sometime accompanied by a handwritten date. I have come across only one (the example given). Kind of like provenance without having pedigree book. Edited March 16, 2022 by Pantodude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantodude Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 (edited) Trying again. So no one has ever seen a date stamp that includes distributor name, here on a 1962 Marvel book? Edited March 16, 2022 by Pantodude broadening inquiry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicdonna Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Search the Tom Reilly Collection. I think it's a distributor for stores. Pantodude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantodude Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, comicdonna said: Search the Tom Reilly Collection. I think it's a distributor for stores. Hi and thanks. Are you saying that I can see scans of the books in that collection? Why didn't I think of that! But I think the Gilboy markings on the Golden Age stuff in that collection (as I recall reading) was handwritten/cursive, just a "g", which is why i am so intrigued by the SA "GILBOY" version. I will check that collection though. Edited December 11, 2020 by Pantodude comicdonna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buttock Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 The distributor codes were applied by the retailer, not the distributor. It was a way of noting which distributor they would return books to for those that didn't sell. Pantodude and comicdonna 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
